News tagged with religious conservatives

Zurich voters keep 'suicide tourism' alive

(AP) -- Voters in Zurich have overwhelmingly rejected calls to ban assisted suicide or to outlaw the practice for nonresidents.

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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Asia helps drive Facebook's 1-billion goal

As Facebook nears saturation levels in some Western countries, Asian users are helping drive the social-networking leader's march on the 1-billion-user milestone and beyond.

Technology / Internet

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scholars to apply facial recognition software to unidentified portrait subjects

Anyone who has admired centuries-old sculptures and portraits displayed in museums and galleries around the world at some point has asked one question: Who is that?

Technology / Software

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Unpublished journal offers new take on Darwin's daughter

A small, lockable leather diary - kept in the vast archives of Cambridge University Library - has led to a reassessment of one of the key relationships in Charles Darwin’s life.

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Is media-driven 'pseudo-reality' the future of U.S. politics?

(Phys.org) -- In the hyperpolarized world of the 2012 election, misinformation among Americans remains widespread, a new University of Wisconsin-Madison study finds.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 48

Tennessee opens door to creationism in public schools

A law to allow public school teachers to challenge the scientific consensus on issues like climate change and evolution will soon take effect in the southern US state of Tennessee.

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (7) | comments 200

Tennessee seeks to question evolution in bill

US conservative Christians and science advocates are clashing again, this time in Tennessee over a bill that would allow debate in public schools over theories like evolution.

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 185

Power of love at heart of 'gay marriage'

Legal rights and protections play second fiddle to the power of love for younger gay and lesbian couples who have formed civil partnerships, according to a three-year study by researchers at The University ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Suit alleges dismissal for intelligent design

(AP) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has landed robotic explorers on the surface of Mars, sent probes to outer planets and operates a worldwide network of antennas that communicates with interplanetary spacecraft.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 11, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 61

Stark warning emerges from science summit

A stark theme emerged from an annual scientific get-together in Vancouver: the world must be helped to believe in science again or it could be too late to save our planet.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (32) | comments 114

Teaching science to the religious? Focus on how theories develop

Vicious, winner-take-all competition in nature is an essential pillar of evolutionary theory, but it frequently describes the mindset people have about how, or whether, to teach the subject. Religious students sometimes come ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 619


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